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...that stationed these men at this strategic point on this occasion. . . . We can only infer that it was the same Power which guided the path of the Mayflower . . . Franklin and Washington . . . George Rogers Clark . . . Lincoln and Grant . . . Fields of France." The last half of the speech dwelt on present-day Prosperity in the South, on union in the Nation...
...what was meant by education. Some of us came here to carry on the traditions of the medieval clerk, to lay aside the vanities of the world, intent upon enriching the mind with the wisdom that is found in books. Some of us came here "to live", as our present-day novelists would put it. But the majority of us came here to seek education by choosing what was most happy and wholesome in our books and in our companionships...
...most pressing problems that confront many undergraduates in the present-day colleges is that of adjusting extra-curriculum activities and the demands of scholastic work so that each has a fair portion of the available time. This is particularly the case in a small college where the activities are many and the demand for members among the organizations keen, but it is present in all institutions and Harvard is not without the difficulty...
Professor P. E. Raymond, associate professor of Paleontology and curator of Invertebrate Paleontology, has been awarded the Walker Grand Prize of $1000 for his work on the fossils known as trilobites. Trilobites, now extinct, were marine animals somewhat similar to the present-day horseshoe crab...
...indeed, is the lot of the present-day politician. His campaign is supervised, albeit not very carefully, from start to finish; his funds are investigated, and then re-investigated; even when he has been elected he may find the door of his office rudely slammed in his face. But this last independence of the candidate has never been tampered with; his privilege of saying anything or nothing has always stood; and if he has recently preferred to say nothing, who has there been to forbid him? Even this right is at last being undermined; and, although no one troubles himself...